30 Day Baseball Card Challenge

Friday, October 5, 2012

Sports Card Trifecta #17: Chipper Jones

"Ultimately, three errors cost us the ballgame. Mine probably being the biggest." -Chipper Jones

Papa Fuji raised me to take responsibility for my actions. I guess Chipper's dad did too. Which just adds to the long list of reasons, I consider him to be a class act and a great ball player.

For nearly two decades he's given baseball fans everything we could ask for: hard work, solid hitting, dedication, and loyalty.

And when he announced that he would be retiring at the end of the season, I knew my Sports Card Trifecta collection would be incomplete without his presence. So in honor of his final game and the end of an era, I present to you my newest sports card trifecta:

4 comments:

Glad he was honest about it, but he always has been up front. Class act-will miss him tremendously. Now, if only MLB/Joe Torre and umpire Sam Holbrook would show the same kind of integrity and admit that it was a horrible call. MLB Sucks

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